O'Hare International ORD
Cheap flights from Chicago O'Hare arrive at ORD, one of the two airports serving the city alongside Midway International. Popular routes from O'Hare run to Warsaw, Krakow, London, Chisinau, Milan, Istanbul, Paris and Bucharest, so the airport covers European links and the onward connections that feed them. Check the code on your ticket before you arrange ground transport: O'Hare and Midway sit in different parts of Chicago, and mixing them up costs you time.
O'Hare International at a glance
- Passengers per year
- 84.9 M (2025)
- Hub for
- American Airlines, United Airlines, Envoy Air
- Elevation
- 668 m
- Opened
- 1944
- Official website
- flychicago.com
- Population of Chicago
- 2.7 M (2025)
Country facts: Wikidata
Getting to the city
Ground transport from O'Hare comes down to rail, bus, taxi or rideshare, and the right pick depends on your terminal, your luggage and the hour you land. Build in a buffer at either end of the working day, when roads into Chicago slow down, and settle how you are getting in before you land rather than after. If your trip starts or ends at Midway International, plan that leg separately — a booking that assumes an easy switch between the two airports will not hold.